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...Already." Moreover, John McClellan has finally brought his temper under control. In 1954 he returned to Arkansas to run for re-election against Fair Dealing ex-Governor Sid McMath, his bitterest political enemy. McMath knew just how to get McClellan's goat: accuse him of being a pawn of the powerful Arkansas Power & Light Co. McClellan's conservatism has often paralleled that of A.P. & L., but McMath was among the few people in Arkansas who professed to believe that John McClellan was, or could be, anybody's pawn...
McClellan Adviser Q. L. Porter recalls an early strategy conference: "John said, 'If McMath wants a fight, he can sure get one with me.' I said, 'John, if you go in there with that attitude, he's gonna whip the pants off you. That's the only way people can ever beat you-by making you mad. And here you sit in my office, and you're mad already, and the campaign hasn't even started...
...Well, do you know John McClellan went through that whole campaign without ever saying the name Sid McMath? That changed him. He saw what he could gain by keeping calm. Not that he became a calm person, but he practiced calmness because he could see its virtue...
Faubus, onetime highway director for ex-Governor Sid McMath, was accused of attending Commonwealth College in the Ouachita Mountains. Commonwealth, which folded in 1940, was later branded a Communist-line school by the U.S. Department of Justice. Faubus admitted he had hitchhiked to the school from his Ozark home in 1935 to accept a proffered scholarship, spotted the Red danger signals after a few weeks, and hiked right back home. Cherry refused to let the matter drop, suggested Faubus was lying. Faubus fought back with a charge that Cherry was the tool of special business interests; he chortled happily when...
Arkansas. Senator John L. McClellan, 58, survived his first close scrape in twelve years by a majority of some 4,500. The runner-up, Fair-Dealing former Governor Sid McMath, 41, ran out of campaign funds; to pay for a final ad, his staff had to pass the hat around. McClellan's ally, Governor Francis Cherry, failed to win a majority. In the runoff he faces a McMath crony: hawk-nosed Orval Faubus, 43, former state-highway director, a self-educated, match-chewing mountaineer...